| Show WOMEN AND CHILDREN what is to be done with the women isa question also repeated in every we burnal u rn al one writer says it is all very well weli 1 I 1 to 0 say that women should be wives and mothers and study household good good works in their household to promote but how are they to be provided with husbands in a country which obal obliges es every other man to be ba a soldier and ana where it is the custo custons custom nf if not the rule for men to remain in celibacy ce 11 ll till they are forty those who are rich have husbands rus lus bands and households but they do not attend to them and as we said in a previous letter those who are poor have husbands and children but not households the rich as well s the poor send their children to be taken aken care of by nurses whom they do lot liot know and it often happens that they hey die and their are by b y the parents believe always to be their own much has been written lately upon this system of placing children with strange nurses and a society is being formed at paris to found an establishment where they may be received and remain under the superintendence up er ftp uto menee of competent matrona matrons and good physicians alas alasi that paris pails should J auld be the only place in france where these benefits can be realized it is true enough that a woman who cant read cannot be competent to take care of the health of a child yet they will not teach the women to read laj if instead of fountin founding this institution they would build a dozen schoolhouses school houses and teach girls physiology it would be far better we one day sat down by a public fountain and there came a little boy ten or twelve years old leading a little sister of a year and a half or tw two 0 years he was reading and we enter ed into conversation with him he said he did not go to school now because he was obliged to take care of his sister his father was a gilder of A aita ita od vict vice in italy at the battle of magenta and solferino his mother was a washwoman and had no time to devote to her child they could not afford to send it to a because it was necessary to pay some opo ope foi carrying it and bringing it five cents each way and five for the care it would receive during the day and its nourishment this gives an idea of their Vo poverty verty that fifteen cents a day should be a sum they could not afford and thus allow a boy to attend school the father earned from sixty to seventy cents a day and the mother from forty to fifty which was all they had for fod food clothes and lodging for four they must necessarily calculate every cent and this is a zings s specimen of their calculation in all things I 1 A is an establishment where they take care of babies during the day for those mothers who are obliged to go from home to work it is a funny sight two or three hundred babies of nearly the same age tossing and tumbling about in circles and cradles on the floor and in nurses arms sucking their thumbs and their toes and without doubt they are much better cared for than with their poor mothers and yet there are hundreds of mothers in paris and every large city who cannot alfrord amford afford the few cents a day at the gr GEN HAL HALLECK LEcic has received an order to gradually disband the ithe troops in arizona which will be done as sooil soon as the apaches are cleaned out AN ax artesian well weli opened some time since by mr nir frank tripp of pacheco california but chich thich suddenly became choked and foul was vas opened reopened re and set to flowing earthquake with avi pure water by the recent earthquake e |
